I knew it wasn't pdf2swf's fault given the web agency's track record. I'm wondering what they could have screwed up while integrating and setting up pdf2swf within the application so that I can have a more efficient conversation with them.
It must be something pretty serious in order to blow up the file size by a factor 10 while reducing image quality. Thanks, /Ian On May 11, 2010, at 1:23 AM, Mark Lee wrote: > So it seems the problem is with the settings in the Web application. pdf2swf > is vindicated. > > Mark > > > From: Ian Scott <[email protected]> > To: Mark Lee <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, May 10, 2010 7:06:12 PM > Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] SWF file size and quality > > With 99 separate SWFs generated with pdf2swf outside of the web application > the total comes to 9.8MB > > /Ian > > > On May 10, 2010, at 11:14 PM, Mark Lee wrote: > >> What's the result when you generate the 99 separate SWFs with pdf2swf >> outside of the Web application (in command line?)? >> >> >> From: Ian Scott <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Mon, May 10, 2010 4:56:21 PM >> Subject: [Swftools-common] SWF file size and quality >> >> I have a pdf document with 99 pages that is 12.5MB as a pdf file. When I run >> it through the gpdf2swf converter it creates an SWF file that is 8.9MB and >> looks great. >> >> When I plug the same pdf file into the web application that my web agency is >> building for me it creates an overall file size of around 100MB and >> understandably takes forever to load >> >> pdf2swf is used within the application to convert the pdf into 99 separate >> SWF files (one per page) which are then displayed in a Flash based viewer on >> the site >> >> Could anyone tell me why the overall file size for the document when >> converted into one SWF per page is so large (and the image quality worse) >> compared to converting the file as a single SWF with the stand alone >> gpdf2swf converter. >> >> Is this normal or has my web agency done something very, very wrong. >> >> A bottle of The Macallan to anyone who can tell me what to tell my web >> agency to get the file size and quality at least somewhere near the gpdf2swf >> 8.9MB >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> >> Ian Scott >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >
